"Most of Lubitsch's other plot sources are hackneyed representatives of
Sardoodledom."
Gerald Mast; The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies; University of
Chicago Press; Aug 17, 2004.

"There is even the Secret of the well-made play, Sardoodledom's ultimate
question: who is Godot? Will he come?"
David Bradby, Michael Robinson; Waiting for Godot: Plays in Production;
Cambridge University Press; Nov 15, 2001.

This week's theme: eponyms.

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